Month: December 2016

“There is something in there that relates to me. But it’s quite secondary.”

Noora Dadu’s Fail premiered in Kiasma Theatre in November 2016. Fail was an independent sequel of Dadus 2015 performance My Palestine. Two additional performances of Fail will take place in January 2017.

Discussing with Dadu are Mira Kautto and Tuomas Laitinen. The discussion is in Finnish.

“I wanted it to be far from all that social difficulty, so that you can be alone and in any place where you do not need to encounter other people and at any time.”

Both Liisa Pentti’s Jeux – re-imagined and Rea-Liina Brunou’s Pedestrian Ballet premiered at Kutomo in Turku in October-November of 2016. Esitysradio saw Jeux at Ateneum in Helsinki and Pedestrian Ballet at Kutomo and at Zodiak Z-free in Helsinki. The pieces were connected by their use of history of dance; Jeux was a re-imagined version of Vaslav Nijinskys ballet from 2013, Pedestrian Ballet refered to Marie Taglioni, a 19th century baleet dancer.

Discussing with Liisa Pentti and Rea-Liina Brunou are Mira Kautto and Tuomas Laitinen. The discussion is in Finnish.